Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An in-depth review of 6,000 of the group 's 11,000 free-trade loans found that on top of £10m to be provided against beer profits , a further £37m was needed to cover it against potential problems on 2,000 accounts . |
| 2 | It found that on average , women expect to be taken out to dinner ten times before they 'll have sex with a man . ’ |
| 3 | They found that on average the unit trusts had increased their investments in short-term assets from 9 per cent in 1972 to 27.9 per cent in 1974 . |
| 4 | Marsh found that on average there was a fall of 0.9 per cent for a short period after the shares went ex-rights . |
| 5 | They found that on average , a gastrin concentration of 1000 pg/ml ( -500 pmol/l ) gave maximal gastric acid stimulation . |
| 6 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 7 | In the earlier 5-year plans many environmentally destructive problems arose ; the relocated Indonesians found that on arrival , despite a policy of grass planting on a contour basis , soil erosion had already occurred resulting in nutrient depletion . |
| 8 | Birkett reported that on occasion a single warrant had been issued to cover a number of names , a practice which the committee criticized as being ‘ undesirable ’ . |
| 9 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 10 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 11 | On bail bandits people who offended while on bail he promised to bring in legislation to increase the penalties and set up bail hostels . |
| 12 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 13 | Three days later the ICJ announced that on March 26 it would open hearings on Libya 's application concerning the interpretation by the USA and the UK of the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation . |
| 14 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 15 | The Reform Alliance announced that on top of the agreed agenda , they wanted congress to make a decision on four issues . |
| 16 | Chad announced that on Oct. 30 , 1989 , its troops had killed at least 600 members of the so-called Libyan Islamic Legion and had destroyed an important military base belonging to that force on the Sudan-Chad border . |
| 17 | The EPLF also announced that on Sept. 12 it had agreed to merge its forces with those of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement ( EPRDM ) . |
| 18 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 19 | McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him . |
| 20 | Our third meal we ate while on duty — sometimes at 2 a.m. — in the huge cafeteria erected just outside the gates of the Park . |
| 21 | At the Canterbury Eliot Symposium in 1983 , Tom Faber mentioned the attacks of vertigo Eliot suffered while on holiday in Wales . |
| 22 | Once past Black Head speed over the ground increased as the tidal stream lessened and on arrival at Falmouth the yacht was finally secured alongside the lifeboat and manoeuvred onto a mooring just after 0400 . |
| 23 | The White Paper preceding the abolition of the GLC ad MCCs stated that on reorganisation the London boroughs and metropolitan district councils would ‘ acquire responsibility , individually or collectively , for the functions currently exercised by the GLC and MCCs , with the exception of London Transport , flood protection in the London area [ which went to the RWA ] and a few minor aspects of other functions ’ ( DOE 1983b:6 ) . |
| 24 | Reports stated that on July 3 , 1988 , Spence had arranged a late night tour of the White House for six people , including two male prostitutes . |
| 25 | Commons sources confirmed that on Thursday Mrs Thatcher stood at the despatch box with a television monitor nearby to see how she appeared on television in the chamber . |
| 26 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 27 | Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) . |
| 28 | In another broadcast the radio station claimed that on Sept. 14 a group of 30 monks had attacked four soldiers travelling to hospital in Mandalay . |
| 29 | If this baseline showed that on average the child was 4 hours later in going to bed , you know it would be unrealistic to start the intervention programme which suddenly requires him or her to go to bed at 7.30 . |
| 30 | The church taught that the individual 's fate after death was primarily decided by the way he or she acted while on earth . |